It’s fascinating how the west will claim that the DPRK worships this guy and his every action and bowel movement is mentioned on the evening news over there, but like, the only place actually obsessing over what his personal habits are is the west.
You don’t think his own country is fascinated?
About his eating habits? Not particularly, no.
Like they don’t have photos of them on the wall
They don’t have him carved into a mountain.
Like it would be uncarved? That was created a century ago. Nothing to be proud of. I’m not moving the goalposts, I’m pointing out it doesn’t matter. The point isn’t the statue/picture, it’s the obligation.
They have pictures of the dear leader everywhere TODAY. The point is they are forced to venerate them now.
If it doesn’t really matter, and everything is the same, go to Pyongyang, and denounce then in public. Compare that to denouncing a past or even current president either at Mount Rushmore or on Pennsylvania Ave.
The DPRK has only existed as a political entity for 75 years. Kim Il-sung is their founding father. He died in 1994.
Do you expect them to not venerate him to some extent? The WPK ejected the Japanese and Amerikan imperialists who raped and murdered millions of Koreans – who stripped them of their national and cultural heritage, their language, their names, their fucking humanity. The WPK brought that all back. Kim Il-sung was chairman and president. The last president before the position was abolished, hence the title “Eternal President”.
Kim Jong-il was his son and helped manage to maintain Korean sovereignty in the face of the collapse of most of the socialist world, in the face of the west turning its guns towards the now destabilized smaller socialist nations. He died in 2011. He was general secretary of the WPK.
If Abraham Lincoln died 12 years ago, how do you think Amerikans would treat his memory? If George Washington died 30 years ago…
I do not know why I waste my time. Maybe for those reading this actually interested in learning, for those reading this that are not so horribly racist as to utterly dehumanize an entire people. Your complete ignorance of the ways Amerikan civil religion permeates this nation is very telling, as is your abstraction between Amerikan and Other civil religions.
I live on Washington street. It borders Monroe street and Jefferson street. All literal slaveowners. Yet you take umbrage with a nation’s reverence for the man who helped lead his people in liberating themselves from people with mindsets just like yours… in living fucking memory! Those poor, brainwashed Koreans. They just need to be Westernized/Japanized/liberalized/vaporized/insert-whatever-racist-bullshit-you-believe-here, right? Not like they’re human beings with the agency to make their own fucking choices. Fuck you.
Americans are so used to their leaders being dogshit useless racists that they literally can’t fathom that another nation’s leaders actually earned the admiration they get.
Hey, thanks for writing this up. I really enjoyed the passion that you’ve used to write this.
forced to venerate them now
Source?
Their ass.
Says the one moving the goalposts.
Having a picture of your leader is when you are also when you are obsessed with his every bodily function, apparently.
If I were kept starving I’d be fascinated by the eating habits of literally anyone who had enough to eat.
Love to see you feed a population after having your entire country reduced to rubble.
The DPRK is food insecure because of sanctions imposed by your evil ass country. The DPRK is food insecure because they are still rebuilding from the carnage wrought by your sadistic idols.
Who told you everyone is starving, anyway? Or is it just “common knowledge”, you illiterate fool?
It’s difficult for Anglo-Europeans not to imagine people in other countries starving because it’s so widespread and normalised in the imperial core. With such abundance yet so much hunger in the west, it’s no wonder that westerners struggle to comprehend how other states could feed their population with just enough to go around (i.e. no great abundance). (Not that libs tend to care what the actual food stats are in AES, just like they don’t care what the yanks said about calorific intake in the USSR.)
i swear, western news media is just purposely screwing with people at this point
They’re just trying to say it will be harder for him to “throw his weight around.”
I’ll leave now. :P
It is the Washington Post which is owned by Bezos. What do you expect?
“Kim Jong Un’s hairdo continues to be absolutely trash. Here’s 5 reasons why bald guys are the best things on Earth” - Another headline from a bezos owned property, I suppose
*benzos
Bozos
The word “could” is doing massive work in that headline
Top tier title haha
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Never underestimate the endless wilful stupidity and bigotry of liberals. They just need any excuse at all.
As soon as the DPRK comes up, what brain cells remain for critical thinking immediately shut down. You can say literally anything about the DPRK, as long as it is negative they will eat it up.
North Korea ate my lunch and peed my pants 😭😡
North Korea delivered Travis King to the cannibal Kim Jong Un, who ate him alive
I only had to scroll down 2 comments more more
Edit: link doesn’t seem to work for me, shows me the response to the comment I copied the link of. Maybe a bug in Jerboa?
Really wonder what a persons political leaning has to do with bad journalism
Everything. Do you believe in “unbiased” reporting?
Didn’t really think that comment through in hindsight; especially considering there’s a lot of politically biased articles are out there.
Although the original comment felt a lot like it was trying to say anything left leaning would be bad journalism, which is a BS way of approaching this kind of problem
I understand what you are saying. I do not think “unbiased” news exists, and outright prefer when the biases of news outlets are presented front and center.
I recommend checking out the YT channel First Thought for important world news. They’re really fast on the trigger, and do not hide their leftist bias one bit. “The most biased news show”, they call it. I respect it far more than bourgeois outlets owned by literal billionaires peddling propaganda while pretending to be unbiased.
I don’t know if this article is new, but if I recall correctly there was a bunch of articles like this around the second wave of COVID, as people were speculating he had dropped a ton of weight due to being super sick. If this is from that time, that’s probably the angle they were going for, rather than gossiping about his eating habits like a tabloid magazine.
It’s not, it’s two years old. You’re on the right track, but it’s not exactly that, but more covering the speculation, even quoting an interview mentioning it as ridiculous and absurd.
Gift link for seeing the actual article.
Lift so hard that the world itself trembles.
“Now, you might think this means there is more food for the starving citizens of North Korea, but, our sources indicate that Kim is actually eating more than he has ever been, and his weight loss is due to his new workout regime (an authoritarian workout regime at that) that he has adopted simply out of spite for his citizens and the desire to deprive them of food.” – RFA, probably.
South Koreans freak out and make headlines when their pop idols lose 0.0005 grams or earn 0.00003 grams of weight. This is not surprising lol.
changes clothes
Oh my, they lost weight!
Guess they finally found a way in which Kim can genuinely be called a loser
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